24:003:003 Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath
           been no latter rain; and thou hadst a whore’s forehead, thou
           refusedst to be ashamed.

24:003:004 Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou art
           the guide of my youth?

24:003:005 Will he reserve his anger for ever? will he keep it to the
           end?  Behold, thou hast spoken and done evil things as thou
           couldest.

24:003:006 The lord said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king,
           Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is
           gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree,
           and there hath played the harlot.

24:003:007 And I said after she had done all these things, Turn thou unto
           me.  But she returned not.  And her treacherous sister Judah saw
           it.

24:003:008 And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel
           committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of
           divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went
           and played the harlot also.

24:003:009 And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom,
           that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones
           and with stocks.

24:003:010 And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not
           turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the
           lord.

24:003:011 And the lord said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath
           justified herself more than treacherous Judah.

24:003:012 Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return,
           thou backsliding Israel, saith the lord; and I will not cause
           mine anger to fall upon you:  for I am merciful, saith the
           lord, and I will not keep anger for ever.

24:003:013 Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed
           against the lord thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the
           strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my
           voice, saith the lord.

24:003:014 Turn, O backsliding children, saith the lord; for I am married
           unto you:  and I will take you one of a city, and two of a
           family, and I will bring you to Zion: 

24:003:015 And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which
           shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.

24:003:016 And it shall come to pass, when ye be multiplied and increased
           in the land, in those days, saith the lord, they shall say no
           more, The ark of the covenant of the lord:  neither shall it
           come to mind:  neither shall they remember it; neither shall
           they visit it; neither shall that be done any more.